Saulieu
Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2009
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Results: 7 records
BBL01: design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Holly Hayes, Sacred Destination [www.sacred-destination.com]
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BU01: human figure - head
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Holly Hayes, Sacred Destination [www.sacred-destination.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU02: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Holly Hayes, Sacred Destination [www.sacred-destination.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the later base [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Holly Hayes, Sacred Destination [www.sacred-destination.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Scene Description: notice the the damaged areas of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Holly Hayes, Sacred Destination [www.sacred-destination.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holly Hayes, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2008 by Holly Hayes, Sacred Destination [www.sacred-destination.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: [source unknown]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10287SAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [re-cut?] [later base] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Basilique [collégiale] Saint-Andoche à Saulieu
Font Location in Church: Inside, in a N side chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andoche de Saulieu
Church Notes: late-11thC church; restored 19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00112652]: "11e siècle ; 12e siècle ; 14e siècle ; 16e siècle"
Church Address: 4 Pl. Dr Roclore, 21210 Saulieu, France -- Tel.: +33 3 80 64 07 03
Site Location: Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D906, 40-50 km N of Autun
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Dijon
Additional Comments: altered font? / re-cut? / damaged font / composite font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font probably of the date of the original church, the late 12th or early 13th century, consisting of an octagonal basin of vertical sides with a narrow chamfered underbowl, raised on an octagonal pedestal base decorated with mouldings; there is a double groove carved all around the lower sides of the basin; at the top of the underbowl chamfer each angle is decorated with a motif or symbol, of which at least one human head, one fleur-de-lys are visible in the source material. The font design is off balance for an early font and quite possibly has been altered through its history; the base is too narrow and the wrond shape for a font of this period; it is alos likely that the basin underbowl was re-cut to fit the new base. There is much damage to the basin: the back has a wide open crack; at the front there is a part of the upper rim that has broken off, right where the hole of the old metal staple was, now showing the empty hole.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Holly Hayes, of Sacred Destinations [www.sacred-destinations.com, for the photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 593022 5236961
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.279528, 4.23
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 16′ 46.3″ N, 4° 13′ 48″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal